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Recent articles by Wayne Ford

A studio sensationIssue 89, Winter 2014
Review

                                                In 1930, a 24-year-old German, Horst P. Horst (born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann), arrived in…                        
The painful vision of Eugene RichardsIssue 53, Autumn 2004
Review

                                                While many forms of photography are enjoying a popularity like never before – be it…                        
Violent vaudevilleIssue 62, Winter 2006
Feature

                                    
All my own workIssue 77, Autumn 2010
Feature

                                            Books lie at the heart of photography’s history. Now photographers are opting for the freedom and ‘total conception’ of publishing themselves.            
Every detail countsIssue 77, Autumn 2010
Feature

                                            Wayne Ford profiles a ‘major force in British photography’            
Photo-temptations in glamorous MoscowReview

                                                With 24 venues, 90 exhibitions and nearly 150 participating photographers, the month-long Moscow Photobiennale 2006 is…                        
Towell’s testimony of unrest in GazaReview

                                                Like the legendary French photographer Robert Doisneau, Canadian Larry Towell is a reluctant traveller, preferring the…                        
Photojournalism from small-town carnivalsReview

                                                In the past few years, a number of the twentieth century’s seminal photographic books have been…                        
Pictures on the book pages [extract]Review

                                                The history of photographic books has rarely been explored in any depth. The most notable attempt…                        
City of international photographyIssue 49, Autumn 2003
Review

                                                Now in its sixth year, PhotoEspaña celebrates the best in photography from around the world. This…                        
Photography invades Tate Modern [EXTRACT]Issue 49, Autumn 2003
Review

                                                ‘Cruel and Tender’ marks the first time that this celebrated art gallery has mounted an exhibition…                        
The man who made aeroplanes out of scrap metalReview

                                                Scout, the latest venue in the heaving gallery-land that is London’s Hoxton Square, hopes to live…                        
Meet me in ProvenceIssue 73, Autumn 2009
Review

                                                If photography had a Mecca, the annual Rencontres d’Arles in the south of France would…                        
Recent Photobooks: a connoisseur’s guideIssue 62, Winter 2006
Review

                                                Martin Munkacsi By F. C. Gundlach Steidl, €48. Thames &amp; Hudson, £39.95 In the 1930s…                        

Blog posts by Wayne Ford

Headless wonder

16 April 2014
Photography, Reviews, Visual culture

Martina Bacigalupo discovers a new source of human stories at Uganda’s Gulu Real Art Studio

In early 2011, the Italian photojournalist Martina Bacigalupo left her small hotel in Gulu, northern…

Wild vision

9 March 2011
Awards madness, Photography, Visual culture

Wayne Ford on the art and craft of wildlife photography

In 1884, Ottmar Anschütz made his now famous studies of storks, writes Wayne Ford. The…

Escaping Modernism

31 August 2010
Photography, Reviews, Visual culture

Edward Weston’s flight from photographic theory

The early twentieth century saw photography dominated by the influence of painting, with the then…

Sam Haskins and other stories

27 August 2009
Book design, Design history, Photography, Posters, Visual culture

The South African photographer with a graphic edge

‘Sam Haskins is an important photographer. There, I’ve said it!’ This is the first line…

The heights (and depths) of fashion

31 March 2009
Illustration, Photography, Visual culture

Moscow’s ‘Changing Beauty’: style is in the eye of the photographer

‘Changing Beauty’ is the theme of the sixth Fashion and Style in Photography biennale, organised…